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Hanks and Hodges say that it is an English name of unknown origin but hint that it may be an anglicization of Welsh Baughan (found also as Vaughan ), a diminutive of Baugh , ultimately from bach `little.
2) Why is Ralph Vaughan Williams listed under Vaughan Williams but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle appears under Doyle?
I wonder, though, why the Baughan (and Vaughan ) entries do not mention that bach was an epithet that distinguished a son and father, a kind of Welsh equivalent of junior . I also have my doubts about how ordinary users of this dictionary will cope with its metalanguage.
In his poem The Menagerie , one of William Vaughan Moody's characters advises:
People well-known in the entertainment world, such as Frankie Vaughan, are definitely not mentioned.